Duke Econ vs. UChi Econ

Colleges & Universities Duke University
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<p>I know this is cross posted from the Chicago thread. But this list that someone posted: <a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nr...gs/area36.html[/url]”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nr...gs/area36.html&lt;/a&gt; kind of worried me. Is Duke economics really that bad? O_o NYU and Michigan rate above it?</p>

<p>Anyone got any opinions on that matter?</p>

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<p>Please also consider job placement and internship opportunities, which I think is most important. If anyone has any comments on NYU, Michigan or Emory, please feel free to leave a comment as well. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Your link seems to be broken.</p>

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<p>umm, Michigan (Ross) and NYU (Stern) are some of the top undergrad B schools in the country. I would say the recruiting coming out of those schools is equal to Duke. </p>

<p>You will find similiar opportunities from Duke and UChicago, and both have similiar number of analysts hired each year. Really, bracket bulge firms don’t look at econ rankings, they look at undergrad profiles when deciding on who to hire and recruit. It’s different for B-schools, where rankings do matter. But the top 20 econ schools (which has a very high correlation to top 20 schools) all get similiar recruitment. </p>

<p>Harvard, Yale, Pton, and Wharton are obviously the front runners, then Stanford and MIT (sloan), and then the rest of the top 20 (Duke, UChicago, NWestern, UMIch, NYU, the ivies, etc.)</p>

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<p>Link is here: <a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html[/url]”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And thanks for everyone’s output! I think I’m pretty set on Duke. :slight_smile: As long as I don’t get any insane financial aid offers from Emory.</p>

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<p>Oh, yeah, that’s probably a research ranking. That I can believe. It also has no relevance to what an undergrad looking for a private sector job would be looking for.</p>

<p>If you want to know how interest rates can impact certain types of foreign debts or that sort of thing, and – more importantly – if you want to write publishable papers on the subject, then this starts to matter. If you want to be an investment banker or a consultant, the list is irrelevant to your purposes.</p>

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<p>Well said, bluedevilmike. UChicago and Hopkins are great for graduate school - but that doesn’t translate to undergraduate education</p>